Maszman Speaks!

A TOTALLY AWESOME eco­nom­ics paper. No, really.

Sony’s Reader is the lat­est attempt to make books obso­lete. It doesn’t, but it’s the best attempt so far.

I like eBooks and I read them on my Palm all the time. But they’re not a replace­ment for books, just a con­ve­nient for­mat for when I’m unex­pect­edly in a sit­u­a­tion where I’ve noth­ing else to do. There’s some­thing about hold­ing a book in your hand that eBooks don’t pro­vide, regard­less of the form of the hard­ware you read them on. You can own thou­sands of eBooks in the space of your PC, but there’s noth­ing to hold, noth­ing to really look at. I don’t use the library much for that rea­son, I love the own­er­ship of books. No eBook will ever give me that feeling.

Remem­ber Friend­ster? It could have been pur­chased by Google but the founder was talked into accept­ing ven­ture cap­i­tal instead. Friend­ster went from social net­work­ing leader to exam­ple of botched deal­mak­ing, sort of the oppoite of YouTube.

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Orig­i­nally uploaded by tom­masz.

When I went to get in my car on Fri­day, I noticed this PC, com­plete with hard drive, in the back of the pickup truck next to me. If you look care­fully, you’ll notice it’s full of leaves.

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Orig­i­nally uploaded by tom­masz.

Wash­ing­ton St. park­ing garage in the early morn­ing. This is where I park now that my name came up on the wait­ing list that I didn’t real­ize I was on.

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Orig­i­nally uploaded by tom­masz.

You used to be able to stroll around the perime­ter of the High­land Park Reser­voir, now this is what you see instead.